Chapter 4 vocabulary

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indigenous

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native or original to a place

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griot

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a West African storyteller who retells historical events and culture from one generation to the next

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caravan

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a group of people traveling together

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animism

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the belief that animals and plants have spirits

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colonize

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to claim land for a nation by establishing a settlement

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ancestor

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a relative who lived before

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oral history

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past events shared by spoken stories or songs

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longitude

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a measure of a location's distance east or west of the prime meridian

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latitude

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a measure of a location's distance north or south of the equator

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kente' cloth

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a traditional colorfully patterned cloth from West Africa